Follow the ‘dumpster archeologist’ Lew Blink as he pieces together people’s stories from the objects they’ve left behind ...

Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process ...

To complete the perilous project his mother never finished, a filmmaker documents Indigenous resistance in war-torn Colombia ...

Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss ...

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ William Blake captures the suffering and oppression on the streets of 18th-century London ...

Following the death of relatives or members of their group, many nonhuman animals act in abnormal ways. From a human perspective, these unusual behaviours, such as staying with the dead for days, can ...

W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them? Takako Isayama, a 12-year-old congenital victim of Minamata disease, with her mother, ...

After years of insomnia, I threw off the effort to sleep and embraced the peculiar openness I found in the darkest hours Bright Light at Russell’s Corners (1946) by George Ault. Courtesy Smithsonian ...